[Mailman-Users] Complaining Outlook users

Andrew Hodgson andrew at hodgsonfamily.org
Sat Aug 2 14:30:06 CEST 2008


Karl Zander wrote:

>On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:06:10 +0100
>  "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Since I moved my list from Freelists to our own server running 
>>Mailman (2.1.11), I am getting complaints from Outlook users, and quite a 
>>few of them are managing to post messages to the bounce address.

[...]
> 
>> Is there any way in Mailman to get the return envelope as the
>> bounce/VERP address, but add the list at domain.com address to the 
>>sender header instead, as I think this is what Outlook is picking up?

>This may start to address your questions.

> From field displayed by Microsoft Outlook
>http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/From+field+displayed+by+Microsoft+Outlook

That is grate, and pretty much confirms what I wrote in my previous message, and gives me a hack which I could use.

The question is: Do many listadmins get similar questions, and is there any merit for requesting that Mailman uses the list address only in the Sender header?

Thanks.
Andrew.


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